Yelling with Stef

We have to leave on a trip at 530 in the morning and I’m crying because we’ve barely started packing and it’s 6:25 which is already midnight

Sometimes doing politics just means stacking chairs

My son listened to wizard of oz on repeat when he was 5-6

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Requesting my library to buy it 🫡

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Second most biguous lyrics I’ve seen this week!

I appreciate Ernst Fraenkel’s concept of the “dual state,” wherein a fascist regime (in his example, the Nazis) will observe set rules and regulations when confronting some actors—what he calls the “normative state”—and will use arbitrary, unchecked violence towards others—the “prerogative state.”

It’s at my school too. The adults have started saying it to make it corny so they’ll stop

I’d rather pay for a thousand undocumented workers’ ER visits than a single missile fired at a Venezuelan fishing boat.

How can you be so cruel to this sweet boy who has never once eaten food in his whole life

My autistic brother is 44. If he’s suddenly “cured” who even is he

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons:

-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

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In Those Years Adrienne Rich In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you we found ourselves reduced to I and the whole thing became silly, ironic, terrible: we were trying to live a personal life and yes, that was the only life we could bear witness to But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather They were headed somewhere else but their beaks and pinions drove along the shore, through the rags of fog where we stood, saying I

How did my deacon take a banger gospel and turn it into a homily about Cal Ripken jr

The right is not inevitable

Has anybody here had an especially good or bad experience ordering custom vinyl stickers online? There are a million identical companies out there and my members crave sticker

Btw here’s that epic moment the churches all came together and began ringing their bells as loud as possible for the protesters in DC.

More profound than car horns. These are not the average recorded chimes we usually hear.

They laid on them heavy for the people.

Acutis e Frassati, Papa Leone XIV annuncia i primi santi: “Bellissima festa” Oggi in piazza San Pietro si conclude la canonizzazione dei due giovani. Anche Mattarella alla messa

In a sign geared to the "populist" politics of our times, Pope Leo XIV canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, a martyr in the struggle against fascism in Italy, who passionately advocated against wars and colonialism and advocated fidelity to international law. www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025...

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

This isn’t true for my whole state but I’m proud to say my county is 100% free breakfast and lunch

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.

On this Labor Day I want to amplify the labor politics of Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

Lost teaching job after exposing conditions of school system. Wrote critically about convict leasing. And returned south after decades of exile to defend and report on jailed Black sharecroppers who tried to unionize.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Might need to go back and get that bottle of Dom I saw at Costco yesterday

Hello tiny baby!!

Sick to my stomach. What a dark few days in a string of dark days

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

My school system lost funding for a program that helps disabled kids *transition* from high school to adulthood through internships